THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



in operation in a few months, and four more >uch units will be 

 provided as need requires. 



The extension of the rubber plant will place the Mason com- 

 pany among the first five tire producers of the Akron district. 

 Eighty thousand square feet of floor space will be devoted to 

 rubber in the new buildings, which will give a producing capacity 

 of about 2,200 tires, solid and pneumatic, a day. Extensions of 

 the administrative and welfare buildings, garages and so on 

 will be made this year, and the plans prepare for future additions 

 in all departments. The housing of the large force of workers 

 is also provided for, as 140 acres of land have been bought for 

 improvement and a large number of houses have been built dur- 

 ing the year. These are well constructed and modern and are 

 rented or sold to employes on favorable terms. 



MID-WESTERN NOTES. 



By Our Regular Correspondent. 



THE following appointments have been made by the Firestone 

 Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, in the Middle West and West: L. 

 A. Brown, special truck tire sales representative in the North- 

 west ; C. W. Brown, office manager, St. Louis, Missouri ; M. O. 

 Halverstadt, office manager, Des Moines, Iowa; A. W. Hugh, 

 office manager, Fargo, North Dakota ; George Jacoby, office man- 

 ager. Great Falls, Montana; E. A. Snyder, office manager, Minot, 

 North Dakota; H. J. Guther, special representative for truck 

 tire sales, with headquarters at Chicago, Illinois; George W. 

 Keller, special representative of the new cycle tire sales depart- 

 ment, with headquarters at Chicago, territory to include, in addi- 

 tion to that city, Minneapolis, St. Paul and Duluth, Minnesota ; 

 Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Des Moines and Davenport, Iowa; 

 Fargo and Minot, North Dakota ; and Great Falls, Montana. 



The Pan-American Rubber Co., now of Milwaukee, Wiscon- 

 sin, manufacturer of the "Parco" cellular pneumatic inner tire, 

 is building a factory on South First street, Watertown, Wis- 

 consin, which is expected to be occupied by the first of January, 

 on which date the company will remove its office to the new 

 factory address. Its leading product is an inner tire filled with 

 a substance similar to sponge rubber, and which, because of its 

 construction, obviates the trouble of punctures and blowouts. 



The Racine Rubber Co., Racine. Wisconsin, has bought 55 

 acres of land in the vicinity of its factory and subdivided it into 

 lots on which it is now building houses for 200 families. These 

 contain six rooms each and have all modern improvements. 

 They will be sold to employes of the company on a monthly 

 payment basis, practically the equivalent of rent. Thirty houses 

 •will be ready for occupancy about January 1, and the balance 

 about .'Vpril I. 



The Black Hawk Tire & Rubber Co. is now equipping its 

 factory at Des Moines, Iowa, and expects to begin manufactur- 

 ing fabric and cord tires and red and gray inner tubes by Jan- 

 uary 1. The officers are: William Moran, president; John F. 

 Griffin, vice-president; Earl A. Lewis, secretary: and J. J. 

 O'Mallcy, treasurer. Paul I. Anderson is superintendent, and 

 C. E. Reiss technical engineer. 



The Haywood Tire & Equipment Co., Indianapolis, Indiana, 

 is to build a foundry on Harding street and Pennsylvania rail- 

 road, to cost $115,000. This will be of the monitor type, 

 100 by 200 feet, equipped with traveling overhead crane and 

 new machinery. A machine shop will be added, also. M. E. 

 Haywood is president. 



The International India Rubber Corp., South Bend. Indiana, 

 is receiving bids on a factory addition one story higli, 110 by 

 n7 feet. This is one of three new additions planned. 



The Kokomo Rubber Co., Kokomo, Indiana, has opened six 

 factory branches in southern and middle-western states and has 

 appointed Earl P. Logan director of sales. Mr. Logan was 



formerly in charge of the central district of the Federal Rubber 

 Co., Cudahy, Wisconsin, with headquarters in Chicago. The 

 Kokomo company is one of the older tire companies, having 

 been established in 1895 for the manufacture of bicycle tires, 

 druggists' sundries, etc. Three years after its inception, it also 

 began making automobile and carriage tires. In the same year, 

 1898, it doubled its initial capital, and in 1901 quadrupled it, 

 while in 1917 it increased it from $200,000 to $1,000,000. In the 

 meanwhile it has established branches, incorporated as individual 

 companies, under the laws of several other states. 



Charles E. Wood, Singer Building, 149 Broadway, New York 

 City, crude rubber broker, is opening an office in the Adver- 

 tising Building, Room 1420, Chicago, Illinois, in charge of Clin- 

 ton Taveniere, for the last nine years with the Goodyear Rub- 

 ber Co. of New York. It is Mr. Wood's intention to get closer 

 to manufacturers and give them prompt and efficient service, 

 and the Chicago office is being opened with this purpose in mind. 



J. B. Gabeline, president and general manager of the Stand- 

 ard Four Tire Co., Keokuk, Iowa, has left for an extended trip 

 through the South. His company is showing rapid progress. 

 Three large mills and one 68-inch calender are being installed in 

 the new addition to the company's factory. 



Plans were drawn two years ago for a $600,000 addition to 

 the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co. tire and tube factory at 

 Muskegon, Michigan, but the work was temporarily held up on 

 account of war conditions. The plans are now being redrawn 

 on a much larger scale and ground for the new structure will 

 be broken just as soon as the drawings are completed. The 

 battery jar department, of which H. G. Vanderhoef was recently 

 appointed general sales manager, has outgrown its present 

 quarters and will be allotted larger space in the new additions. 



Because of expansion plans, the capitalization of the Hawkeye 

 Tire & Rubber Co., Des Moines, Iowa, was increased on Octo- 

 ber 28 from $1,500,000 to $3,500,000, $875,000 of the increase 

 being preferred stock and $1,125,000 common. 



Work has been started on the company's new building, the 

 cost of which will amount to approximately $350,000. The 

 business has grown to such an extent that the demand for 

 Hawkeye tires during the last six months has been far in excess 

 of the factory output. 



The Nebraska Tire & Rubber Co., Omaha, Nebraska, has 

 been operating its factory night and day to take care of the 

 volume of business which has been secured. The "Cornhusker" 

 tire is a hand-made, extra ply, oversized tire, and has made 

 good from the start. Plans are under way for increasing the 

 production to take care of the growing demand. 



TECHNICAL ENGINEER OF THE BLACK HAWK TIRE & RUBBER CO. 



C. E. Reiss, who resigned from the chemical department of 

 The B. F. Goodrich Co., Akron, Ohio, last September to accept 

 the position of technical engineer of the Black Hawk Tire & 

 Rubber Co., Des Moines, Iowa, was 

 graduated from Ohio State University 

 in the class of 1915, in chemical engi- 

 neering. Immediately after graduation 

 he entered the chemical laboratory of 

 The B. F. Goodrich Co., under George 

 Ocnslager, now the company's chief 

 chemist. At the end of the first year he 

 began working on mechanical rubber 

 goods under Mr. Noble of the develop- 

 ment department and during the war 

 worked on all gas-mask compounds in 

 connection with factory production. Mr. 

 Reiss' e.xperience in these departments 

 undoubtedly fits him excellently for his new position with the 



C. E. Reiss. 



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